Workers' Compensation Counsel

Chubb Life Fund; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chubb Life Fund, part of the Global Litigation team, seeks a Workers' Compensation Counsel to advance litigation, coverage, and compliance strategies. This office-based role in Philadelphia includes occasional flexibility and reports to the Philadelphia office.

The role oversees civil actions nationwide, directs appellate strategy, coordinates regulatory responses, and provides coverage advice. It also supports government affairs, international coverage, and internal training, ensuring

Qualifications

• J.D. from a accredited law school.
• Experience handling workers' compensation litigation and related regulatory matters.
• Ability to manage complex litigation, appeals, and regulatory investigations.
• Strong collaboration with internal teams, regulators, and external counsel.

Responsibilities

• Oversee civil actions involving workers' compensation disputes across the country, manage outside counsel and discovery preparation.
• Provide strategic direction for appellate matters and guidance on potential precedent and industry impact.
• Collaborate with Compliance to respond to regulator inquiries and manage complaints including investigations.
• Offer coverage advice on workers' compensation matters, interpreting policy language and reviewing contractual obligations.
• Support State Government Affairs with monitoring trends and coordinating responses to proposed legislation.
• Assist on international coverage issues to ensure consistent technical delivery across the discipline.
• Provide training and guidance to internal partners on compliance and litigation topics.

Skills

Litigation management

Appellate litigation

Regulatory compliance

Coverage analysis

Outside counsel management

Legal research

Cross-functional collaboration

Training delivery

Job description

As a member of the Global Litigation team, Workers' Compensation Counsel will provide legal support to the Workers' Compensation Claims teams in areas of litigation, coverage, and compliance. This is a work-from-the-office position, with some occasional flexibility, reporting to the Philadelphia office.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Litigation: Oversee civil actions involving workers' compensation disputes across the country involving extra-contractual and bad faith issues. Manage relationships with outside counsel and third-party administrators; provide strategic direction for litigation; assist with discovery and deposition preparation; and serve as company representative at trial.

• Appeals:Manage and provide strategic direction for appeals to state intermediate and appeals courts. Provide guidance to management about potential precedent, publicity, and broader industry impact for appellate matters.

• Regulatory Compliance and Complaint Response: Work with the compliance team to respond to regulator requests and inquiries. Oversee and ensure proper response of Department of Insurance and Better Business Bureau complaints including investigation, coordination of responses, and tracking and trend analysis.

• Coverage: Provide coverage advice on workers' compensation matters with complex coverage concerns, including policy language interpretation, coverage position letters, hammer letters, and reviewing contractual obligations under the policy for both Chubb and its insureds.

• Government Affairs:Provide insight to the State Government Affairs (SGA) team about state-level loss and litigation trends in the workers' compensation area. Lead liaison between SGA and the Workers' Compensation claims teams to research the impact of any notifications, coordinate opinions of proposed legislation changes and craft responses to SGA with an analysis of the impact to the discipline/industry.

• International: Provide support on matters of Employers' Liability and Foreign Voluntary coverages to ensure delivery of a consistent technical product across the discipline for unique legal issues, and international coverage support.

• Claims Support: Provide practical and strategic advice to internal business partners, including underwriting and claims departments, regarding coverage, regulatory compliance, Medicare and workers' compensation legal issues.

• Training and Guidance: Provide training to internal business partners on a wide variety of compliance and litigation-related topics. Drive quality, technical excellence and execution of best practices guidelines

Key Accountability Areas:

• Develop key relationships with internal business teams to ensure holistic solutions to business units including, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance, Coverage Positions, and State Government Affairs.
• Communicate in person and in writing with business partners on matters of significance.
• Identify regulatory and litigation trends, track and monitor changes, communicate updates and analyses. Conduct research to evaluate issues and support recommendations.
• Take initiative, be a team player and problem solver.